The role of foreign direct investment in the host-country firm selection process: Firm-level evidence from Slovenian manufacturing

Review of World Economics

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 169-193

  Kejžar, Katja Zajc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Crowding out; Firm selection process; Foreign direct investment; Productivity spillovers; Slovenia; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953024997     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-010-0077-3     Document Type: Article

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